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Anyone
in education should know that it’s hard work.In addition to the expectations, demands, versatility and
creativity, there is supreme emotional strength needed to survive and be successful. We’ve
all heard over and over since our youth things about ‘hard work,’ ‘early bird
gets the worm,’ and more.Like in
all professions, there are those that deliver and those that don’t.In some ways, it’s really that simple. What
teachers and educators need to learn is to be a ‘hustler.’ That’s right.Learning and winning with
students is a game.Those that
learn to play the game, and play it well, will rise above any adversity thrown
at them by government bureaucracies, students, parents, colleagues or other. Again,
educators need to become ‘hustlers.’This doesn’t have to be the negative street connotation, but rather
about those that learn that all systems can be mastered, legally and ethically,
to get them to work for you. We
have to play and maneuver at high levels of passion, expertise, confiden…

It might be hard to find something that has transformed the world
more in the last decade than social media. Indeed, governments, corporations, organizations and social
movements have been formed, or even transformed, through effective use and
implementation of social media.

In education, as usual, we have been slow to understand and
ultimately embrace effective uses of social media. Maybe it’s the word social that scares us from the beginning. We are all very aware of the negative
activity, topics or images on social media. Indeed, it’s very reminiscent of the early concerns about
the internet. When the web was first available to the public, we heard lots of
concerns related to everything from personal security to pornography. And even though those issues were and
are real, we also soon realized the potential positive power of the Internet to
transform business and economics, shopping, travel, communication and
more. To me, social media, is in the middle o…